This website shows real-time data from monitoring programs in Lake Champlain and throughout the Lake Champlain Basin.
Please choose a data type above. All data plots are interactive. Hover over plots to see details on each measurement, or click and drag to zoom in on a section. Additional features can be found at the top right of each plot.
This website is under development. All data is provisional and for educational purposes only.
Lake level, lake temperature, and tributary discharge data is collected by the US Geological Survey.
The Lamoille River and Malletts Bay buoys are part of a pilot study to upgrade and modernize the Lake Champlain Long-term Monitoring Program. These buoy are instrumented with an array of water quality and weather sensors that measure several parameters every 15 minutes.
Lake Champlain monitoring buoys are supported by the Lake Champlain Basin Program, in partnership with New York and Vermont Departments of Environmental Conservation and SUNY Plattsburgh.
Snow data provided by NWS Burlington office and the University of Vermont. Latest and historical Mt. Mansfield snow depth data is available in comma-separated format at this link.
This website was developed by Matthew Vaughan, Chief Scientist at the Lake Champlain Basin Program
This site is in development. All data is provisional and for educational purposes only.
The plot below shows the total measured discharge (volume of water per time) delivered to Lake Champlain from 19 tributaries. Note that there are tributaries and direct-to-lake sources of water that are not monitored and/or not included in this plot.
The Malletts Bay buoy will be deployed in spring 2022.
The Valcour buoy will be deployed in spring 2022.
Data from the Upper Saranac Lake Environmental Monitoring Platform can be found at this website, hosted by the Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute.
Note that satellite images may be obscured by cloud cover or processing errors.